racism in schools
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Dallas Mom Calls for School Staffer to be Fired After Calling Her Son 'a Little Monkey'
An Edna Rowe Elementary School staffer has been placed on administrative leave and is probably about to lose their job. If you read the headline and presumed “For calling a little black boy a monkey?” you would be 100 percent correct. Dallas mom Brittany Miner says it all began three weeks ago. “He was jumping…
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As If Christmas Carols Aren't Insidious Enough, High Schoolers Turned 'Jingle Bells' into the KKK's Official Theme Song
Much like Trump’s toupee glue, being a teacher is a thankless job. There’s low pay, long hours, and a tremendous amount of responsibility to mold the minds of our next generation. But even outside of being an educator, they’re disciplinarians, role models, mentors, and invaluable pillars of our society who have a profound ability to…
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Toronto Principal Transferred After Being Accused of Racially Profiling Students With ‘Black List’
To hear Principal Peggy Aitchison of Etobicoke School of the Arts tell it, she was just trying to track gaps in educational support and achievement. So she crafted a list of students which she she shared with other staff at ESA in November. The issue? The list comprised only the school’s black students—including its valedictorian.…
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High School Antwon Rose Jr. Attended Faces Allegations of Brutal Police Abuse: Report
The video doesn’t allow for much interpretation. Taken in March 2015 at Woodland Hills High, the Pittsburgh school Antwon Rose Jr. attended, the footage shows a school police officer walking up to a black male student who had been sitting down, his hands fixed on his lap, a notebook under one hand, his entire posture…
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White Football Coach Accused of Using a Noose as a ‘Joke’ to Intimidate a Black Student Gets Paid Leave
A San Jose, Calif., high school teacher and assistant football coach has been placed on leave—but will still be collecting a paycheck—after an incident during which he allegedly simulated a noose to intimidate the lone black student among a group of football players. The Mercury News, citing police, reports that the Santa Teresa High School…
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White Teacher Makes Instagram Post Mocking Black Elementary Student’s Hair
A Canadian school board has launched an investigation after a white substitute teacher made an offensive post on Instagram mocking the hair of a black student. The Peel District School Board was notified of the racist post after a concerned community member posted about it on Twitter. “Hi @PeelSchools,” Twitter user @giaper wrote. “[P]lease be…
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Pennsylvania High School Students Under Fire for Playing N-Word Hangman
The young wypipo are at it again, and this time a school district in Pennsylvania has gotten a lesson in just how racist some of its students can be once a teacher leaves the classroom. A group of high school students in the Hollidaysburg Area School District thought it would be a great idea to…
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A Black Student Says He Was Sexually Harassed and Assaulted by a White Classmate, but Only He Was Punished
The family of a black middle school student has filed a lawsuit against the Lansing, Kan., school district for racial discrimination in failing to protect him from physical and sexual harassment at the hands of another middle schooler. This is the second such lawsuit filed against the Lansing School District in a week, the Kansas…
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Government Study: School Is Racist
That headline could go down as the greatest clickbait of all time if it weren’t for the fact that a new report found that—regardless of the racial makeup of the school, the type of punishment, the level of poverty in the school or grade level—black students are much more likely than their white counterparts to…
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‘Unapologetic’ White Nationalist Podcast Host and Middle School Teacher Resigns
Nearly a month after HuffPost first outed Florida middle school teacher Dayanna Volitich as the host of a white supremacist podcast, Unapologetic, Volitich has submitted her resignation. The Citrus County School District removed Volitich from her classroom on March 2, reports the Citrus County Chronicle, as the district investigated claims that Volitich had moonlighted as…